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A conversation with urban planner and architectural historian James Michael Buckley about their book City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Texas Press, 2024)   James Michael Buckley is an urban planner, recently retired from the University of Oregon where he was an associate professor and venerable chair in historic preservation, and the director of the historic preservation program in the School of Architecture and Environment. Previously, he held teaching positions at MIT, San Francisco State University, and the University of California Berkley, where he earned an MA in city and regional planning and a PhD in architecture. He also holds a BA in Art History and American Studies from Yale University.     The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or Twitter, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

Dorothy Hung, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Lean Engagement & Research (CLEAR) at the University of California – Berkley shares the results from research done on advancing health equity and leader practices. These findings will also be presented in a published paper.

Do you want to start investing but have something that's been holding you back? We want to help you to get out of your own way and start. In today's episode we break down 3 common barriers or fears and go through our advice to overcome each of them: 1:00 - 6:00 Investing is Gambling6:00 - 9:00 Investing is only for experts,9:55 - 17:00 I don't have enough time or money to InvestLinks Referenced: University of California Berkley study ‘Trading is Hazardous to your Wealth'Morningstar Mind The Gap report Our Book "Don't Stress Just Invest” or as an AudiobookSign up to our daily news email to get the news moving markets delivered to your inbox at 6am Have an investing question? Record a voice note or send us a message on our website and we'll answer it on the podcast. —------Want more Equity Mates?Listen to our original podcast: Equity Mates Investing (Apple | Spotify)Watch Equity Mates on YouTubePick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don't Stress, Just InvestFollow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn—------In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. —------Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional. Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. John Toussaint, Catalysis' Executive Chairman of the Board and Steve Shortell, Co-Founder of the Center for Lean Engagement and Research (CLEAR) at the University of California – Berkley, follow-up with us on the discussion they started on episode 85 about their article “The Better Care Plan: A Blueprint for Improving America's Healthcare System” and the coalition workgroups that have started up.

Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities! On today's show Blaise reacts to a clip from Disability Rights Advocate Bett McMuldren on coalition building. What stood out to you? Share your takes on Facebook @blaisinshows. Rate, review, subscribe, share, and support the show at blaisinshows.com. Learn more about the University at California Berkley disability archive project: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/207700?ln=en Support Blaisin' Access Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blaisin-access-podcast Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/blaisin-access-podcast/d64beef8-a073-4881-97c4-de51b683cc23Read transcript

Emotions researcher Dacher Keltner hears your stories. He heads the Social Interaction Laboratory at the University of California Berkley. His new book is called Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. Also joining us, University of Toronto researcher Jennifer Stellar to share her research on how to leverage awe to benefit health and wellbeing.

If you are dealing with vine mealybug in your vineyard, you are not alone. Kent Daane, Cooperative Extension Specialist at the University of California Berkley studies different types of mealybug populations across the globe. Kent covers organic and conventional strategies, ways to increase the presence of generalist and specialist natural predators, and the importance of establishing refugia for beneficials. His latest work focuses on area-wide management tactics. Looking to the European Grapevine Moth eradication program as an example, Kent sees an opportunity to decrease vine mealybug populations through neighborhood driven monitoring, trapping, coordinated sprays, and mating disruption. Resources:         119: Vine Mealybug 101: Species Identification, Lifecycle, and Scouting to Create an IPM Program 130: The Biological Control of Vine Mealybug Using Mealybug Destroyers and Anagyrus Wasps Biology and management of mealybugs in vineyards Ecology and management of grapevine leafroll disease Impacts of Argentine ants on mealybugs and their natural enemies in California's coastal vineyards Insecticides for a mealybug and a carpenter moth on vine trunks, 2023 In-season drip and foliar insecticides for a mealybug in grapes, 2023 In-Season Drip and Foliar Insecticides for a Mealybug in Grapes, 2021 Kent Daane Mealybug transmission of grapevine leafroll viruses: an analysis of virus–vector specificity Sustainable Control tools for Vine Mealybug UCCE Napa Viticulture Extension Leaf Hopper site Vineyard managers and researchers seek sustainable solutions for mealybugs, a changing pest complex Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year Sustainable Winegrowing On-Demand (Western SARE) – Learn at your own pace Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript [00:00:00] Craig Macmillan: Welcome to Sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team. Our guest today is Kent Daane. He is a Cooperative Extension Specialist with the University of California, Berkeley, and he works primarily out of the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center. And today we're going to talk about a number of topics. Thanks for being on the podcast, Kent. [00:00:17] Kent Daane: Craig, thanks. I'm happy to be here. [00:00:20] Craig Macmillan: Let's dive in on one pest that everybody's interested in, continuing to be interested in, and you may have some new insights or newer insights on this. Let's start with mealybug management. Kind of what's the state of the art in that topic right now? [00:00:33] Kent Daane: Yeah, that's been the number one question I've been getting for many, many years now. It is an invasive pest. We know it came in, probably being brought in by a grower down in Coachella Valley. It has since spread into the San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast area where you are, Napa Sonoma, and it's been found now in Oregon. Just like Napa, Oregon has attempted an eradication program. And probably just like Napa, most likely it's not going to work. It's a very, very difficult insect to kill 100%. I mean, I can come up with all kinds of different programs, soft programs, hard programs, expensive programs, inexpensive programs, where I can suppress that insect pest. It's very difficult to remove it from a vineyard. And that becomes important when you think about the kinds of damage we're worried about in Central Coast wine grapes. Pretty much anywhere where they're looking at grape quality. But especially in the cooler regions. So, this insect, this mealybug, is one of many mealybug species. that is a vector of grape leaf roll associated viruses. And this is the primary reason it grows to such high pest status. So for the most part, the growers can knock its levels down far enough that it's not in the grape clusters or it's rarely found in the grape clusters. That's more of an issue for table grape growers. It's a cosmetic pest. When you look at some of the Regions in the San Joaquin Valley where they're growing a lot of table grapes Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, counties, there's enough heat accumulation and these grapes are harvested early enough in the season that they can still build up their Brix. They can still get a very good grape to market. Even when there's some vinely bug on the vine, they just don't tend to be as impacted by this leaf roll pathogen as our wine grapes. When you get into regions like San Luis Obispo, Napa, Monterey, Oregon, where they really are trying to hold those grapes on the vine for a longer period of time, trying to build up the bricks levels. That's where this. pathogen causes so much damage. [00:03:06] Craig Macmillan: most of our growers are already going to be familiar with this, but what kind of damage does the vine mealybug cause? It's so, so terrible. [00:03:12] Kent Daane: So the vine mealybug, besides being a vector of this pathogen, is also a direct pest of the grapevine. It can feed on the roots, on the trunk, on the leaves, and in the fruit. When this first hit California, we were working on it primarily as a San Joaquin Valley pest. growers that were putting on, you know, the products of the day dimethylate, lanate. If they were missing , the, target window where that pest was exposed, we would see thousands and thousands of mealybugs, not just per vine, but sometimes a thousand millibugs per leaf. It was causing defoliation. It was causing the berries to raisin on the vine. In South Africa, populations were getting so heavy. It was killing the vines themselves. How many people out there 20, 30 years ago were spraying so many neonics as we're saying today? We weren't doing that. now really, we were spraying for leaf hoppers as our number one pests followed by mites in case there was a flare up. It changed what we were doing in terms of pest management. In fact there's a group of us working internationally. Not just on the vine mealybug, but other mealybug species, because we've seen vine mealybug, grape mealybug, citrus mealybug, all becoming more problematic over the last decade. And we're, asking that question, why? What has gone on? And one of the thoughts we've got, not yet shown, but one idea is that we just sprayed so many of these, these newer chemicals that the mealybugs are developing resistance, The natural enemies are not, and we're seeing an escape of some of these mealybug species in now a, to them, a pesticide lessened environment. [00:05:10] Craig Macmillan: speaking of biological control, so this is an invasive pest, came from outside the U. S. That's the kinda the classical biological control problem. the pest comes, but its natural enemies don't come with it. there are some natural enemies of vine mealybug in the United States. [00:05:24] Kent Daane: Yes, they are, and I don't want to go too deep in the weeds on this, but this is new, very exciting to me. I did an importation program, that's a classic biocontrol program, where we go to the pests, origin, we look for natural enemies and we bring those back to the United States. Growers can't do that. It's got to go into quarantine. We have to study those natural enemies. Sometimes for years to make sure that they're not going to do any harm. The classic example people think about is I've got a problem with rats. And so I bring in a weasel, the weasel kills all the rats, and then starts going after my chickens. We don't do that anymore. Classic biocontrol is now much more modern. We've got all kinds of protective barriers against making a mistake. In fact, I think that we've gone a little bit too far. I think we're overly cautious. Bringing this back to the Vine melaybug, I imported material from Europe, from Israel, from Egypt, and from South Africa. We were finding mostly the same species in most of these different regions. The two most important species at that time were called Anagyrus pseudococci, which is The well known parasitoid that you can purchase from insectaries. The other one is Coxydoxinoides peregrinus, no common name on these insects. Both are established in California. When I did this work, we noticed a difference between the anagyrus near species Pseudococci that we were getting in Sicily and Spain with the material that we were getting that had already been established from Israel and what we're finding in northern Italy. Working with a taxonomist, Sergei Trapitsin he found some significant differences between these. And later on after both were imported in the United States determined that these were two species, one still Anagyrus pseudocoxi and one Anagyrus vladimiri. So sometimes you'll see insectaries selling Anagyrus vladimiri and you think, Oh, I want that. That's different. It is different, but both are established in California. We're actually going to do a followup study. now in collaboration with this international group to find out what we've got in California. I suspect we've got both. Now, why is this exciting? Because at the time we were doing this work, we felt like the parasites were different, and we felt that these different groups that we were importing, maybe one had co evolved with the citrus mealybug, And the other with the vine mealybug. And we had already done some work with the vine mealybug, molecular work, looking at its relationship to each other around the world. and their names are, scientific names would be citrus mealybug, planococcus citri. Vine mealybug, we knew as planococcus ficus, which means, Ficus tree, fig tree. And we were showing that this group was, they had an outlier and ours was the outlier. And then working with this international group, they said, look, back in the fifties, there was a planococcus vitis. And I think what you've got, what we've got on vines, is the vine mealybug. But not in Iran and Iraq at that time. And, and maybe in that Mediterranean region Israel, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Turkey the Mesopotamian region, I think is what it is. Maybe there are some parasites there that we didn't have. Certainly, my colleague in Egypt and more parasites than we were finding in Europe. We just weren't able to get them all to establish in colony in quarantine. So it opens up the window that, that maybe there's something still out there. At this point in time, I say in all the countries where vine mealybug is reported as a problem, that's most of Europe Mexico, South America South Africa. We have the best of those parasites. We just want to delve deeper into what are we seeing in Turkey? How does that match up with what we know is in Egypt? And I do have colleagues in Iran. It's just harder for me to go there. [00:10:09] Craig Macmillan: right, of course. so this makes me think, is it possible that we have mixed populations of these mealybugs in California on the same plant, so it's different areas? [00:10:17] Kent Daane: So that's the project we're working on with this international group. What we decided to do in a three part approach is to first find out what everyone's got. The assumption is that in South America, In the United States, North America, we have got single invasion events. Our guess is that it arrived in the U S in Coachella and Mexico at the same time. We're pretty sure that the population they have in Peru is from California Yeah, they were bringing nursery wood in and lo and behold, they found vine mealybug. We went down to look at a nomatode problem to be honest with some UC California researchers. And we found that they had some mite problems at the same mites that we've got in North American California. So they were probably not being very cautious in what they were importing. So we're assuming that South America's got this California group which came from Israel. We know Israel and Egypt have something very similar, but it's different than most of Europe. South Africa is similar to Portugal and Spain, which makes sense with the trade routes that were going on in the 1960s. What we're guessing is that The European groups, there probably are, there's reported failures of vine mealybug mating disruption in some European areas. And we think that probably is this other mealybug that is probably in Turkey. So it's all very exciting to me, kind of delving deeper into the weeds on this. But the first part of this international group, again, a great group of people, Europe, South America our first part is what do we all have? Our second part is what we're doing a grower survey that we actually sent to the vineyard team and they spread out to some growers as well. What are, what are growers using to control the mealybug? Because maybe with some of the, we find out what it is and maybe growers are working harder to control our vine mealybug than say that the fig millebug which appears to be what they've got in most of Europe. Remember when I started the foreign exploration when I was in Spain growers would tell me yeah we've got the vine millebug but it really is not much of a pest. Citrus millebug on vines is more of a pest. Well they probably have that fig mealybug but [00:13:01] Craig Macmillan: Ah, [00:13:01] Kent Daane: You know, taxonomically, it looked to us like the vine mealybug.And I hope I'm not throwing all these things out and it's confusing. So, second part, that is, the survey. What do you have and what are you using to control it? And if it matches up that, yeah, what we've got is the one that's more difficult, that fills in a lot of boxes. Third and fourth part are now looking at the natural controls. What parasites are you getting coming off of this? What parasites are in your region? And how do they respond to the pheromones that we know are out there? So if they're not, if they're responding to both citrus and vine, maybe that's an indication that it's this other group. If they're not responding at all, or weakly, yeah, we've, we've got three or more distinct species. And we can't tell them apart, but maybe the parasites can. [00:13:56] Craig Macmillan: this is kind of a practical question. hoW do you monitor parasitic wasps? They're tiny. They live in refugia. They then come out and plant their eggs in their host. that seems like a really hard thing to do. [00:14:10] Kent Daane: That's an absolute fantastic question. So let's look at that most common parasite, Antigyrus Pseudococci slash Vladimiri. So what we found over the years is that it does a great job on mealybugs that are exposed in the fruit, on the leaves, on the cane. By the end of the season, if you're not putting on a lot of contact chemicals, you're getting greater than 40 percent parasitism. Very easy to see, [00:14:43] Craig Macmillan: Right. [00:14:43] Kent Daane: doesn't do very well against the mealybugs under the bark, because it's got this searching behavior where it's got to get on top of the mealybug, determine how big it is, do I want to put a an egg that's not fertilized in that, which would be a male, and they need smaller mealybugs for that. Do I want to put an egg which is fertilized? In that, that will become a female parasite that needs larger host. [00:15:09] Craig Macmillan: the same insect, the same parasite has the ability to do either. [00:15:13] Kent Daane: Yes. [00:15:15] Craig Macmillan: Wow. [00:15:15] Kent Daane: again, this is really a neat subject and I hope I don't bore the audience too much. But, a lot of these parasites that become important for mealybugs they have this little sac, so you've got your oviduct going to your ovarioles, in the female. And right around the oviduct area, before it splits into the two ovarioles, you've got this little sac called the spermatheca. unlike humans, where the sperm goes in and Seeks out the eggs and fertilizes it. The sperm go in and the female parasite stores them in the spermatheca. And then as the eggs are mature and ready to go down, oviduct and get ready to be oviposited into the mealybug, the female decides to fertilize the egg or not fertilize it. And if it's fertilized, it becomes a female. If it's not fertilized, it becomes a male. And that allows her to determine what the host size is, because the females are bigger than the males. And so she will walk up and down. and size that mealybug and say that this, this mealybug is a good enough size that this is worthy for me to put a fertilized egg in and that will become a female. Or a second in store mealybug, she'll say, this really isn't that good of a mealybug host. So I'm going to put An unfertilized egg, and that will become a male. And that was, going back to this Anagyrus Vladimiri versus Pseudococci, that was the most important difference that we found in this Sicilian and Spanish group of Anagyrus, was that they would oviposit and put females in smaller hosts than the male. earlier parasite which probably evolved on the citrus mealybug. So going back to this question because I do go off on different tangents. How do you sample for these things? So it's really easy to find a mummified mealybug on a leaf. But remember what we're doing. We're spraying now a lot of Movento and we're spraying a lot of the Neonics regardless of its Admire, Platinum, or generic derivative. They're all good materials. and maybe you're putting on an IGR like a plot, again, all good materials, Assail, all good materials. What they tend to do is work really good against the mealy bug, which is exposed on the leaves. Our systemic materials are really good at going out to the leaves. Our contact materials, our IGRs, the neonics, that are contacts kill the mealybug that's exposed. All of these materials do less of a good job with the mealybug underneath the bark. we're not getting a true indication of what these parasites can do because we're killing the host that's the best location for them to attack. So that means to really find out what's going on, you got to strip bark oftentimes. So now you're looking at parasitism in that region of the vine that the parasite doesn't like to be. Now, if we add to this, this other good parasite, which is the coccidoxoenoides peregrinus, we really liked to bring this in because it attacks the very, very small stages of the mealybug, the first and the second instar. It's sometimes a small third, but really it's focused on the second instar. [00:19:05] Craig Macmillan: Got it. [00:19:06] Kent Daane: It's in California. You can find it, but it's really hard to find out what impact it's got because it will parasitize the mealybug and will cause the parasitized mealybug to die. to feel sick and to seek out some area for protection because the anagyrus if you see that mealybug parasitized on the leaf causes that mealybug to kind of glue itself down to the leaf You have to flip that thing to get it off the leaf. A mummy is a dead mealybug which sticks to the leaf. The coccydox anoides causes the mealybug to find a place of protection because it doesn't stick it to the leaf. So it often times goes to the trunk, or goes to the stem, and eventually falls off the vine, and will pupate down into the ground. And so to sample for that one, you have to collect them as first or second instars live, bring them back to the insectary, and rear them out to the parasite, which is just really a lot of work hard to do. so these things are far more difficult to do. Sample four, then going out and counting, you know, aphid parasites, which are just out there as little brown mummified aphids. [00:20:29] Craig Macmillan: it sounds like this would play a role in my timing of my insecticide applications, whether it's Spirotetramat or Neonic or One of the programs that I think is common is to have spirotetramat on top and have a myothiamethoxam soil applied. Does that sound right? [00:20:47] Kent Daane: Yeah, that sounds right. I mean, they're both good products and they're doing what they're supposed to do. they're killing the mealybug. And when the timing is right, they're getting out there before the mealybug. So as the mealybug is going out towards the leaves. You know, they're probably doing a better job than the parasite will do on its own. Now, if you are an organic grower and you can't use those materials, then timing does become a little bit more critical because you're putting on, oftentimes, organic materials every 10 to 14 days because they've got a shorter residual. So on those you may want to, you know, work your timing around to avoid to give it a window of opportunity some of these natural enemies. There you're looking on the leaf, you're looking for mummified mealybugs. You know, are, do I have some of these good natural enemies in the field? You're looking for the mealybug destroyer, or one of the other beetles. Green lancelings are also doing a pretty good job. So you're monitoring those. And maybe you're deciding, I've got a lot of good activity maybe I should wait to put on pyganic or one of the other materials, which is broad spectrum give the other parasites a chance, a cycle, to see what their impact's going to be on that millibug population. Or maybe you're going to leave every fifth row unsprayed to let the parasites come back in and then hit that row later. So you've got a chance for those natural enemies to move the just sprayed vines. [00:22:22] Craig Macmillan: That was going to be my next question is what is the refugee situation for these parasites? Do they come into the vineyard, do their thing and then leave? Do they come in when there is host and then they hang out in the vineyard for the rest of the season? Do we know? I'm just thinking about ways that I can preserve, conserve those parasites as much as possible so that they're there when I need them. [00:22:45] Kent Daane: That's a great question, Craig. And let's break this apart into two different areas. Let's talk about First, the generalist predators that I just mentioned, the green lacewings, a good mealybug predator against the smaller mealybug stages. A lot of the things we do to enhance natural enemies will enhance generalist predators. So that's where your cover crops come in. That's where your pollen and nectar come in. You'll increase generalist predators. Ladybird beetles, green lacewings, minute pyre bugs, those can all attack and kill. That same group of cover cropping that brings in the gentleness predator may have little impact on the specialized parasitoids. Things like the anagyrus and the coccidocsinoides, what they want is the mealybugs. And not all mealybugs will do. They really want the mealybugs that are better hosts for them. So, they tend to get everything they need out of that pest population. They can host feed. They can stick their ovipositor into a mealybug, turn around and feed on some of that exudate, some of what's being bled. The mealybug creates honeydew. That honeydew, instead of trying to plant a cover crop for honeydew, that honeydew serves as a food to increase the longevity of those parasitoids. And as the mealybug density goes down, the parasite numbers should go down as well. Now there are different kinds of food sprays that we hope to look at that oftentimes do help increase both generalists and perhaps specialist natural enemies. [00:24:46] Craig Macmillan: Hm. [00:24:46] Kent Daane: The number one thing you do to to enhance beneficial insect numbers is to watch the broad spectrum insecticide sprays or to time them where you're not spraying, you know, all 100 acres at the same time, but you're leaving a refugia so they can move back in. [00:25:08] Craig Macmillan: Interesting. So, I might be looking at something and saying, okay, I am going to have to take some action here. I'm hitting an action threshold but not pull the trigger on the whole thing. leave one area for a little bit, and then can you come back and treat that later, so that you're preserving some of these folks, and then they can come back on the other side, and find a balance between the chemical and the biological. Mm [00:25:31] Kent Daane: Right. A balance, a delay might just be 10 days, might be 20 days. We don't want to miss our spray window, but remember, Most of the natural enemies are winged as adults, whereas the female mealybug is never winged. Fairly slow, fairly thestle. So that allows for those beneficials to come back in. And if you're a large grower this just happens over over the course because you can't spray 100 acres in a day. [00:26:07] Craig Macmillan: Right. Right. Fascinating. Are growers starting to adopt, in your experience with the folks that you work with, are growers starting to adopt these kinds of timings and techniques and methods? [00:26:19] Kent Daane: I think growers are constantly adopting, improving, changing one of the common misconceptions when I talk to students or people who just don't don't know how to farm or farmers is that farmers really don't want to spray. Spraying costs money. it is an added expenditure, added time, added worry. So they'd much rather, you know, go back 50 years when we didn't have all these invasive insects from Vine mealybug to Virginia Creeper growers are always seeking out how to improve the insecticide materials they've got, how to reduce the insecticide applications they have to make. And that does include natural enemies, mating disruption. What it comes down to is just costs. So oftentimes there's a trade off. If you're going to use mating disruption, you may not be doing three applications of an insecticide for vine mealybug. Maybe it's one insecticide plus vine mealybug mating disruption. If you're organic and you're releasing beneficial insects and spraying every other week. Maybe you don't have the cost for mating disruption. So these are all decisions that individual growers have to make. Obviously we've got some growers in some regions can spend 300 per acre for mealybug control. Other growers simply cannot do that because of the value of, their product at the very end. [00:28:03] Craig Macmillan: Right. This is kind of a natural lead in to something I wanted to touch on, and that is the Virginia Creeper leafhopper that's found on the North Coast. That also an invasive, correct? Came in from outside. [00:28:15] Kent Daane: It is invasive to some extent. It is not invasive like the vine mealybug is from. The Mediterranean region Virginia creeper most likely is, is North American. But yes, it was never really a California leafhopper pest. It was, no England, Canada. Pest that then went into Washington, then went into Oregon, that then came into California. interestingly, the, leafhopper that I worked on for so many years the variegated grape leafhopper probably North American, probably had a different avenue, probably came up from the south, from Mexico, Texas, to Arizona, to California. So Some of our invasives are close relatives. [00:29:07] Craig Macmillan: Interesting. what's the difference in damage that's caused by the Virginia creep leaf hopper and the the variegated leaf hopper. [00:29:17] Kent Daane: So they're, they're very similar. I think that the grape leafhopper is the one we've been dealing with for the longest time and has been relatively mild compared to the other two. The variegated grape leafhopper When it first came into the San Joaquin Valley, it could defoliate vines. It had three to four generations per year. [00:29:42] Craig Macmillan: Oh, wow. [00:29:43] Kent Daane: It seemed to be much more damaging than the grape leafhopper. Virginia creeper leafhopper, now in northern California, making its way south. So it's gotten to the middle of the state. It's in Napa, Sonoma, Sacramento. I have not seen it. Heard it reported in the Fresno area. Oh, it has been reported in Fresno. But I'm not saying it causes much damage here. We really don't get many leaf hopper reports for damage here, except for organic growers. And that's because all the sprays for vine mealybug. Most of those vine mealybug sprays are very good against the leaf hoppers. Where I have seen it as a pest. It's been mostly in wine grapes. Mostly in the cooler regions of the state. Mostly controlled by conventional insecticides. There are programs organic materials registered for Virginia creeper that I think have done a fairly good job. But it, it does get out of hand. And I think for all these leaf hoppers with organic materials, what happens is that The organic products tend to not work well , against the leaf operant in the egg stage or the leaf operant in the adult stage. So timing is very important. You want to get those materials on. when egg hatch is nearly complete and when you've got mostly first and second instars out there. That's because most of our organic products tend to impact these pests by either being a desiccant like the soaps that dry it out or a suffocant like the oils that clog the spiracles. And so the the, adults just fly away from that tractor rig as it's coming down. The eggs are protected inside the leaf itself, in their little clusters for the Virginia Creeper. And the larger insects can, they're just more mobile. So it's hard to kill them. So timing becomes relatively critical with these insects. I've not worked directly with Virginia creeper other than hosting Houston Wilson did his graduate work in my lab and really focused on, on the parasites of this insect. Lucia Varela, now retired, did focus on looking at the different insecticides and she's got a nice summary article which is on Monica Cooper's website. It talks about the different insecticides, U C cooperative extension Napa County. And she's got a website that goes into materials for organic growers for Virginia creeper leaf hopper. I think that's where I saw. that information posted. And what Houston did was he just looked at and tried to improve the Enneagrus. So we get those two confused. The Lilybug parasite is Anagyrus. The Leafhopper parasite is Enneagrus. The two names sound pretty similar, but one is an inserted family and one is a Mimerit. Or a fairy fly, fairy winged fly. They're some of the smallest insects known. So, [00:33:03] Craig Macmillan: Wow. So, we are continuing to look at these new parasites, how they're performing, we're learning a lot more about them, and we're learning a lot more about timing of different kinds of sprays around their life cycle. [00:33:17] Kent Daane: Yeah, what Houston was trying to do was to understand why parasitism against the Virginia creeper leafhopper was against all the leafhoppers. Why parasitism was relatively low. So I was working with Danny Gonzales and Sergei Tripitsin, And just mentioning to the taxonomist, Sergei, that it seemed like there were differences amongst these Enneagris samples that we were releasing. And I had happened to save all of the material that had died. So I sent that to Sergei, and Sergei looked at these things closely and then said, look, we've got a complex of parasites. And he named Enneagris erythronureae. After the species that was most commonly attacking variegated grape leafhopper, which is Erythronere variabilis. There was another one, and he called a Negris tryptocova, which was named after his wife's father's family and he said that was the better looking one of the group. And there was one that just didn't do that much. And he named that after me, a Negris Dana. And so that one we thought was the one attacking the western grape leaf hopper most commonly. And it was being found more commonly in the riparian zone. So that's 20 years ago, fast forward to our new invasive leaf hopper, the Virginia creeper leaf hopper, which is again coming down from Canada to Washington to Oregon to California. Well, it ends up that the Enneagris deni is very important attacking that leaf hopper. So Houston was working out the relationship of these three parasites against these three leaf hoppers and trying to understand if he could manipulate their numbers to improve biocontrol. He looked at hedgerows, he looked at augmentative releases or inoculative releases, and we're still curious to see if that can't be improved even. [00:35:30] Craig Macmillan: That's fantastic. Another topic that I wanted to touch on, because it's a really cool idea, and I think we'll have applications across a lot of things eventually, and that is area wide pest management strategies. And I know that you've done a lot of work in this area from the beginning, really, of kind of the concept. What is an area wide pest management strategy? Management program. What does it look like? What can it what is its goal? How does it operate? What kind of success we've seen so far? [00:35:59] Kent Daane: Yeah, that's a fantastic question. It's a topic I'm really excited about and let's think about it when we think about the European grapevine model. that was another invasive insect, It was found in California, it was found in Chile around the same time. So you've got this invasive insect, and the state of California deemed this important enough to have an eradication program. [00:36:22] Craig Macmillan: Oh and just real quick. What kind of damage does grapevine moth do? [00:36:26] Kent Daane: So the European Greenvine Moth it'll feed on the vine, but it gets in the fruit clusters. think of the omnivorous leaf roller One of those, one of our tortricid pests that can really cause damage to the grape a number of generations per year, a lot of different possibilities where it might come from in terms of a host plant material. So it can be very problematic. It would require a spray every single year, an additional spray for a tortricid pest, if it were to establish. [00:37:00] Craig Macmillan: one the big issue here is that it attacks the berries directly [00:37:03] Kent Daane: absolutely. [00:37:04] Craig Macmillan: Okay. So that's a, that's a serious problem. [00:37:07] Kent Daane: No, no, the, it, it causes mold and rot and everything else once it gets in there. So, you know, two or three doesn't seem like a lot. You just think, well, berry can go to crush, but that berry will get all kinds of bunch rot. not a good fruit. So when you think about the eradication program, where there was monitoring everywhere in the state. When you think about the eradication program, where when they found this pest through pheromone traps, and then they did a ground search to find out where it was. And then there was a coordinated investigation. Effort to spray the right materials, to use mating disruption, to go after it in all of the adjoining areas. those eradication programs are very intense. Area wide control programs. So, let's think about Vine mealybug, which is now in most vineyards. We're still approaching this on an individual grower basis. We might have one grower using mating disruption, because they're going to go organic, and a next door neighbor doing nothing. There's going to be constant movement of that pest into that grower's. field We might have two growers, one using Movento every other year, and another using Platinum every other year. Those males are going back and forth between those vineyards, sharing whatever genetic resistance that they're developing. And so really, if those growers are switching, one's using Movento, one's using Platinum that insect is moving between those vineyards all the time. And it's not a resistance management program, or you might have a small five acre grower deciding to put out mating disruption. Mating disruption works better blanketing the whole area. So an area wide program, and then you bring into it the idea of roguing leaf roll diseased vines. there are two things I just mentioned in this last 30 seconds that are so important for area wide management of mealybug and leaf roll that are the killers to those programs. The first is mating disruption still costs more money than a pesticide application. It's a fantastic tool. It is a tool that works better the lower and lower the mealybug density gets. So you use insecticides to really drop the mealybug population down, but there gets to be a point where the mealybugs are now on the bark. There are little populations here and there, and we know the insecticides are never 100 percent. Mating disruption works better. The lower the milli buck density is. [00:40:05] Craig Macmillan: Got it. [00:40:06] Kent Daane: But there's a cost to it. So we start with insecticides. The next part is the rowing of the infected vines. That's very important on an area wide basis because if you're planting, you've had, vineyard is old, it's not productive, it's had leaf roll. You pull it out, but it's right next to a block that's got 80 percent infected vines. You're always going to have new infections showing up over and over and over again. Unless that grower next to you is just doing this bang up job of applying insecticides all the time to keep mealybugs from going into your vineyard. you can make area wide control work for the pathogen. and the pest. But in the best world, let's say you're in control of a thousand acres, pull out every vineyard that's infected and replant and then pull out every new infection in it. And people just can't afford this. [00:41:06] Craig Macmillan: Right. [00:41:07] Kent Daane: if you're managing 200, 300 acres and Your vineyard with leaf roll that's at 30 percent is still profitable. it's hard to pull out those 30%. It's just hard to do. I get it. But something that I wish we could get, you know, government subsidy for to, to have them help us come in, pull out the infected vines, start clean again. But it does work. It's worked in South Africa. It's worked in New Zealand. It's worked in Napa. It just comes at a cost that may be prohibitive in some regions, in some areas. So the best we can do is to manage mealybug and the disease incidence in an area wide manner. [00:41:52] Craig Macmillan: if I remember correctly, I mean, the work has been done now that, demonstrates roguing is your best strategy overall long term, but it's expensive short term. and that is the issue. That's the tricky bit. [00:42:06] Kent Daane: There are two tricky bits to it. The first tricky bit is the expense you just talked about. The second tricky bit is that in most of the regions where we know it's worked They have not been dealing, perhaps, with our vine mealybug. They've been dealing with the grape mealybug, long tail mealybug, obscure mealybug. we've got I think the worst mealybug. And maybe that mealybug is just better at surviving on root remnants. You know, you hear all the time from growers, I r I've been removing 10 percent of my vineyard every single year for five years. And when I looked at The south African data, they removed 20%. Second year, 5%. Third year, 3%. Fourth year, 1%. And after that, it was always 1%. [00:42:54] Craig Macmillan: last piece of this puzzle in my mind is you have to get your neighbors to cooperate. That's the area wide bit. You have to get people to get on the same page in terms of what they're doing. And it sounds to me like they don't necessarily have to be doing exactly the same thing. They just have to be sensitive to what somebody else wants to do. Does that sound right? [00:43:15] Kent Daane: There are areas where it has worked well. It can work in the Central Coast. It can work in Lodi. We may not see, you know, eradication of diseased vines. We may not see a reduction of vine mealybug to a point where we can treat every other year. We might be treating every single year. for this, but we can improve what we're doing through communication right now. In the central Valley, we're working with a great group of growers where we're just mapping out the vine mealybug and we're sharing with the growers where the melaybug populations are. It's their decision. What? What to use, what to do for control. It's their decision. Can they rogue or not rogue? But what we're trying to do is to help foster communication amongst the different growers that are neighbors, because we're a third party, which I think helps a little bit. it would be fantastic if we could have someone hired as a scout or PCA, where we work with. PCAs in the region and everyone shares data. We're trying a new computer program this year, which we at the end of the season, we'll launch with our collaborating growers where they can log on in real time. and see what the trap counts are as we count those trap counts. And that will help them make a decision, we hope, on what to do in terms of control measures. But again, the best thing might be that we're opening up communication, just as the Vineyard team is doing through podcasts, through field days, through the website. [00:44:55] Craig Macmillan: Well, let's hope. And I, and there's a number of other organizations too. the, the group in Lodi has done a fantastic job from what I understand. Fostering communication and sharing information. like you said, I think that's probably one of our, our, our best hopes. Is working collaboratively as an industry and getting communication between the experts like PCAs and the extension community. . [00:45:15] Kent Daane: And of course, anyone can always reach out to me with questions as well. [00:45:18] Craig Macmillan: Fantastic. And we'll put your information in the show notes. I want to thank you for being on the podcast. fantastic. Very helpful and very, very exciting. I think I was feeling a little more dismal about this whole topic coming into this interview than I am now. I think there's maybe more potential than I was kind of giving credit. I, you know, I come from a time back in the 90s when Vine Mealybugs showed up in the Central Coast. And it was a lot of gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, and we did not know what to do, and the damage was insane. I mean, I saw stuff that was just blood curdling, and I think we've come a long way. We've come a long way, and that's from the efforts of folks like you, so I really appreciate it. I want to thank our guest, Kent Daane. He is a Cooperative Extension Specialist with the University of California, Berkeley. he works primarily out of the Kearney Ag Research Extension Center. And, thanks so much for being on the podcast. This is great. [00:46:10] Kent Daane: Thank you very much. Enjoy the harvest time coming up.   Nearly perfect transcription by Descript

Kelly explores the history of play and games with Kelly Clancy, a neuroscientist and physicist who has held research positions at MIT, University of California – Berkley, University College London and the AI company DeepMind. She has a new book, it's called “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”   “Play is practice for the unexpected.”  […]

Da Rune Lykkeberg for et par somre siden så på de bøger, han havde valgt at tage med på sommerferie, tænkte han: 'Gud, du er blevet sådan en, der sidder og gennemspiller gamle slag og konflikter i din fritid, ligesom de mænd, du altid har foragtet, der stod nede i kælderen med deres togbaner og militæropstillinger'. Men måske er det alligevel ikke helt så slemt, at være sådan en. For næsten alt, hvad der er politisk betændt og dramatisk i vores samtid – og til tider kan forekomme næsten uløseligt – har nogen gennemlevet før os. Det gælder ikke mindst for Romerriget.  Mary Beard er professor ved Cambridge University og gæsteprofessor ved University of California Berkley, hun er adlet som 'dame', og så er hun en af de helt store forskere og formidlere af netop Romerriget. Hendes bog Kejser af Rom er udgivet på dansk på Gads forlag, som også har udgivet SPQR, hendes anden store oversatte bog om emnet. Samtidig er Mary Beard en stolt feminist og står også bag en lille bog med titlen Kvinder og magt, der handler om, hvordan kvinders magt er blevet fremstillet siden antikken. Vil man gerne have en legende let og alligevel overbevisende vidensmættet indføring i de store temaer i Romerriget, så er Mary Beard et af de bedste steder at gå hen. I denne Langsomme samtale kommer Rune Lykkeberg og Mary Beard blandt andet ind på, hvad vi kan lære om vores egen samtids konflikter om religion, køn og etnicitet ved at studere Romerrigets storhed og fald. Med dette afsnit går Langsomme samtaler på en velfortjent sommerferie, men vi vender tilbage med en ny sæson Langsomme samtaler på den anden side af sommeren

Dom welcomes back John Yoo, Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California Berkley, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, to the Dom Giordano Program to break down the ongoing proceeding of the Trump hush money trial. Today, in testimony, it came out that Michael Cohen took $30,000 from former President Trump, breaking the case wide open for Trump's team. Yoo breaks down what's been learned from Cohen's testimony, noting the strategy that he'd take on Trump's legal team, predicting what will happen in the closing arguments and the result of the trial. (Photo by Melissa Golden/Getty Images)

Full Hour | In today's third hour, Dom continues the Dom Giordano Program by taking aim at the continued criticism of Harrison Butker, reading back an op-ed in the Inquirer that compares comments made by Eagles QB Jalen Hurts to Harris Butker, noting why what Hurts said was appropriate while Butker's was not.  Then, Dom reveals that Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder spoke on the issue at a concert, playing back the clip where he calls out the Chiefs kicker for what he perceives as toxic masculinity. Then, Dom welcomes back John Yoo, Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California Berkley, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, to the Dom Giordano Program to break down the ongoing proceeding of the Trump hush money trial. Today, in testimony, it came out that Michael Cohen took $30,000 from former President Trump, breaking the case wide open for Trump's team. Yoo breaks down what's been learned from Cohen's testimony, noting the strategy that he'd take on Trump's legal team, predicting what will happen in the closing arguments and the result of the trial. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Kevin Krasnow is the Conservation Director at the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, a long-standing, highly effective organization whose mission is to “protect the wildlife, wild places, and community character of Jackson Hole.” For more than four decades, the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance has been a staunch advocate for keeping Jackson Hole wild and beautiful, and it has proven to be a nimble and creative protector of the legendary Wyoming valley. The organization has served as a watchdog against poorly planned development, a champion for public land, a community voice that holds elected officials accountable, and much more. - Kevin brings a fascinating and diverse professional background to his work at the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance– he's worked as an Outward Bound instructor, a high school teacher, a college professor, and, most notably, he earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California Berkley. Prior to joining the team at the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, he worked for ten years at the Teton Science Schools in Jackson. As you'll hear in our conversation, Kevin is a high-level expert in forest and wildfire ecology, and he speaks eloquently about the role of wildfires in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and beyond. - When I first headed out West from North Carolina nearly twenty years ago, I moved to Jackson Hole— and I will always have a tender spot in my heart for that particular area. So I was thrilled to have the opportunity to connect with Kevin and talk about all things related to ecology, wildlife, fire, and conversation in Jackson Hole. We started with a deep dive into Aspen trees, and why they are such an important and unique part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. We discussed the Yellowstone Fire of 1988 and how that disaster shaped forest management in the future. We discussed the unprecedented development pressure in and around Jackson, how Kevin and his organization collaborate with a wide range of conservation partners, his professional journey from indirect to direct conservation work, and how his career as an educator informs his work today. - If you've ever spent time in the Tetons, Yellowstone, or the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, then you're going to learn a lot from Kevin. Please visit the episode notes for a full list of everything he mentions, and I hope you enjoy! --- Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance Kevin Krasnow --- This episode is brought to you in partnership with the Colorado chapter of The Nature Conservancy and TNC chapters throughout the Western United States. Guided by science and grounded by decades of collaborative partnerships, The Nature Conservancy has a long-standing legacy of achieving lasting results to create a world where nature and people thrive. On the last Tuesday of every month throughout 2024, Mountain & Prairie will be delving into conversations with a wide range of The Nature Conservancy's leaders, partners, collaborators, and stakeholders, highlighting the myriad of conservation challenges, opportunities, and solutions here in the American West and beyond. To learn more about The Nature Conservancy's impactful work in the West and around the world, visit www.nature.org -- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 3:30 - Discussing Aspen trees and how they captured Kevin's attention 9:30 - Threats to Aspen populations 13:30 - Looking at the Yellowstone Fire of 1988 24:00 - How significantly forestry and attitudes toward fire have changed after the Yellowstone Fire of 1988  28:30 - What brought Kevin to the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance  31:00 - Whether or not COVID has impacted the urgency of JHCA's work 35:15 - What specific problems Kevin works on at JHCA  39:15 - How Kevin and JHCA have collaborated with The Nature Conservancy 43:00 - Kevin's switch from “indirect” conservation to “direct” 45:00 - When the outdoors became a part of Kevin's life 47:15 - Kevin's early career in experiential education, and how it benefits his career now 52:30 - Kevin's words for a young person looking for career advice 55:00 - Kevin's book recommendations 58:15 - Kevin's parting words of wisdom, and how folks can support JHCA --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes Mountain & Prairie Shop Mountain & Prairie on Instagram Upcoming Events About Ed Roberson Support Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts

Is there a relationship between climate change and conflict? Gyude speaks to Dr. Edward (Ted) Miguel of University of California Berkley about the impact of rising temperatures, extreme droughts, and floods on competition for resources, and how governments can respond to climate change's compounding impact in fragile regions.

Dr. John Toussaint, Catalysis' Executive Board Chair and Steve Shortell, Co-Founder of the Center for Lean Engagement and Research (CLEAR) at the University of California – Berkley, join us to discuss the content of the article they helped write, "The Better Care Plan: A Blueprint for Improving America's Healthcare System." This article explores how to transition the current fee-for-service system in America to a risk-adjusted payment system with increased transparency on performance to continuously improve outcomes.

Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies America's separation of powers, focusing on regulatory policy issues and the relationship between Congress and the administrative state. Dr. Wallach recently published, Why Congress, where he defends the centrality of Congress in America's constitutional system, traces the roots of current dysfunction, and suggests how the institution might be restored. Dr. Wallach joins Shantanu Kamat from the University of California – Berkley to discuss his recent publication, Why Congress, the impact of institutional changes in the House of Representatives, and consequences of open rules in the house. This episode was recorded during the final house speaker vote on Wednesday, October 25th.To learn more about AEI's work on college campuses, visit our website - https://www.aei.org/academic-programs/. To learn more about AEI's Summer Honors Program, visit the site here - https://www.aei.org/shp/

Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI's Pat Forde regather to react to the news that the Big Ten is meeting to discuss a plan for realignment with their eyes on Pac-12 teams.The podcast opens up by discussing which teams in the Pac-12 are in the forefront of the Big Ten's eyes ahead of their latest pitch to expand. Four presidents have met today and the guys expect the top two targets to be the University of Oregon and the University of Washington, that is if the Big Ten only wants to add two teams in this volley. If the conference wishes to expand to 20 teams Stanford and California-Berkley are expected to be the next two schools to be rounded up.In true NCAA administrative fashion, the Big Ten doesn't want to be seen as the conference that killed the Pac-12. Only in this line of work could you find such irony after adding USC and UCLA, which ended up tanking the Pac-12's media rights deal this offseason. The guys speculate as to what will happen with the rest of the Pac-12 if Oregon and Washington leave, and the other options appear to be the Big 12 and Mountain West.The ACC couldn't let the Big Ten have all the shine today, as member school Florida State expressed their displeasure that they will be receiving the same amount of money as other ACC schools this year. The guys aren't impressed by Florida State's antics and peacocking. Pat believes that ACC commissioner Jim Phillips should feel very disrespected by a program that has reached only tepid levels of relevancy over the last five seasons.Lastly, former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is opening his own bar in College Station, Texas, so the show determines whether or not it's worth checking out.1:00 The Big Ten is meeting to discuss further expansion after the Pac-12 fallout19:23 If you're the Big Ten would you go to 18 teams or 20?27:33 How should Oregon State and Washington State fans feel now?35:27 Florida State is very unhappy with the ACC44:03 Johnny Manziel is opening a barFollow Dan @DanWetzelFollow Pat @ByPatFordeFollow Ross @RossDellengerCheck out all the episodes of the College Football Enquirer and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo Sports PodcastsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Katherine Morgan Schafler, the author of the Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control.As a creative and an expecting mother, I felt called toward this book. SO I'm really excited to have Katherine on the podcast today. Katherine is a psychotherapist, author, and speaker. She earned her degrees at the University of California Berkley, Columbia University, and post grad certification from the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy in NYC. We dive into her book and discuss: What are the 5 types of perfectionists?·      Classic Perfectionists·      Parisian Perfectionists·      Procrastinator Perfectionists·      Messy Perfectionists·      Intense PerfectionistsCheck out her book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665336/the-perfectionists-guide-to-losing-control-by-katherine-morgan-schafler/Follow us on Instagram: @creativeeditionpodcast Follow Emma on Instagram: @emmasedition | Pinterest: @emmaseditionAnd sign up for our email newsletter.

Building a Foundation for Natural Movement  – The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 175 with Skyler Tanner Skyler Tanner, MS is an exercise physiologist, President and co-founder of Smart Strength, and a lecturer with World Instructor Training Schools. He received his Master of Science in Exercise Science from Texas State University. Skyler has more than 18 years of one-on-one training experience, with clients as young as 10 and as old as 94. His goal is to help clients improve health, function, and longevity with minimal time investment. Skyler has lectured at the 2011 Ancestral health Symposium in 2011 at the University of California Los Angeles and in 2014 at the University of California Berkley. His work has been featured on Fox and on the Prevention Magazine media network. Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Skyler Tanner about building a foundation for natural movement. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How everything that is natural isn't inherently good for you. - Why you should be asking if something is helpful, not natural. - How running at a faster cadence can solve many of your running issues. - Why our brains don't like to learn new ways to do things. - How other people's running forms may not be relevant to you. Connect with Skyler: Guest Contact Info Twitter@smart_strength Instagram@smartstrengthaustin Facebookfacebook.com/SmartStrengthAustin Links Mentioned:smartstrengthaustin.com Connect with Steven: Website Xeroshoes.com Jointhemovementmovement.com Twitter@XeroShoes Instagram@xeroshoes Facebookfacebook.com/xeroshoes

Sam Robinson talks about his career path and current role. He graduated summa cum laude from Furman University with a double major in history and philosophy and received his master's degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of California Berkley and is currently a content design manager at PayPal. We discuss:  0:00 - An overview of the major points along his career path and how he figured out what he wanted to do and handled setbacks  1:05 - Why he got a Ph.D. in History 5:02 - Why he switched career paths 7:25 - His experience with graduate school 8:27 - What a Ph.D. takes mentally 8:46 - His regrets about a Ph.D 9:53 - Why academia wasn't a good fit for him culturally 11:04 - His experience applying for postdoc jobs  13:14 - His jobs between graduate school and his current role  14:37 - How he got his role at PayPal 16:56 - Different names for content design roles 17:36 - An example of a content design project 18:12 - A description of what a UX writer does 21:31 - What he does as a manager 22:08 - What a typical day is like for him  28:18 - what he likes and finds challenging about his role 33:23 - Career advice 

In this special edition of the Peristyle Podcast host Ryan Abraham welcomes in three special guests to talk about a USC track and field program that has been getting a much-needed infrastructure boost over the past couple of years. USC track and field throws coach Martin Maric is a two-time Olympian who competed at the University of California Berkley and spent the past decade coaching at Virginia. Former USC thrower Conor McCullough is the president of the South Bay Athletic Club and competed in the 2016 Olympics. John Colich is a USC track and field booster who built the Colich Track and Field Center on campus as well as the Colich Throwing Center in Wilmington, giving the Trojan throwers a dedicated facility for practice and training. This podcast episode was recorded on site at the Colich Throwing Center with Maric, McCullough and Colich talking about various aspects of the USC track and field team, some of the challenges of competing as a private school, the huge boost for recruiting and competing the two new facilities have provided for the track program and how the South Bay Athletic Club is providing USC student athletes (including football players) with NIL money in exchange for charitable work. If you have a question for the podcast you can drop us an email at podcast@uscfootball.com. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Thanks to Trader Joe's for sponsoring the Peristyle Podcast! Make sure you check out USCFootball.com for complete coverage of this USC Trojan football team.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United Kingdom has a new monarch but not everyone is celebrating. Russia is taking big hits as a Ukrainian counteroffensive looms. Despite “highly unusual” racehorse deaths the 149th Kentucky Derby will happen later today. At least 8 fraudulent electors in Georgia have been granted immunity in the investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. And a University of California Berkley professor who falsely identified as Native American her  “whole life” issues an apology.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Fergus and Fraser are back with another round up of all things happening state side. We run through the Ivy Invite, Michigan's trip to Texas, the UCSD Invitational,  SIRA Championships and the first crew to qualify for the IRAs.Oh and shout-out to Princeton for upsetting Harvard's Varsity...This week, Fergus sits down with Scott Fransden, head of men's rowing at California Berkley, the defending national champions. Scott looks ahead to this week's duel against Washington up in Seattle and talks about the success he has built on the west coast.This episode is sponsored by Filippi.Filippi are one of the most instantly recognisable rowing boat brands in the world. Since inception in 1980, they've carried crews to over 400 medals at World Championship and Olympic level and have a network of dealers across the globe. They pride themselves on an ability to custom-create shells of the highest specification, suitable for Olympic champions and novice athletes. Today, the running of the boatyard is undertaken by David Filippi; the yard employs 60 technicians and produces just over 1100 boats each year which supply Federations worldwide.https://www.filippiboats.com/eng

Kristen Modafferi was an honor student at North Carolina State University who wanted to spend her summer taking classes at a different school in a different part of the U.S. - The University of California (Berkley).  She was a special kid who knew how to squeeze every drop of fun out life.  However, after being in California for just over three weeks, she disappeared and has never been seen again.  This is the rare mystery that seems to have too many clues to sort through - but we are gonna try!SHOW NOTEShttps://thewickedtruthblog.com/18-year-old-student-places-secret-personal-ad-in-newspaper-suddenly-vanishes-into-thin-air-6060d503fa5ahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Kristen_Modafferihttps://charleyproject.org/case/kristen-deborah-modafferihttps://web.archive.org/web/20181129215832/https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Kristen-Modafferi-Dennis-Mahon-Onuma-missing-Lampo-12988187.phphttps://abc7news.com/kristen-modafferi-disappearance-san-francisco-coffee-shop/2134466/https://medium.com/the-shadow/the-strange-disappearance-of-kristen-modafferi-94e5301e714aMake People Better PodcastScience fiction is becoming science fact. In 2018, the team behind this podcast...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Older Women & FriendsAward-winning author Jane Leder and guests take a deep dive into the joys and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showSupport by joining KMH+ and by checking out our merch shop! Follow us on -Instagram @kmh.podcastTwitter @kmhpodcastFacebook click hereTikTok @kmhpodcastThank you for listening! Please rate, subscribe, and share if you enjoy our work!

Summary: This amazing amphibian's senses are unique and almost unbelievable! Join Kiersten as she sheds a little light on caecilian senses.    For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean.   Show Notes:  The Amphibian Class by Rebecca Stefoff “Underground amphibians evolved unique ear.” by PlanetEarth Online. https://phys,org/news/2014-07-underground-amphibians-evolved-unique-ear.html Caecilians: An Overview https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/caecilians “The comparative morphology and evolution of the eyes of caecilians (Amphibia, Gymnophiona) by Marvalee H. Wake, Zoomorphology: 105, 277-295 (1985) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/bf00312059 Music written and performed by Katherine Camp   Transcript (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… I'm Kiersten, your host, and this is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we'll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating.  This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won't regret it. This episode continues caecilians and the second thing I like about this amphibian is their senses!   Let's dive right in, listeners, because this is some fascinating stuff! We're going to start off talking about vision. In the first episode my guest co-host and I touched quickly on the fact that caecilians are essentially blind. Let's explore this in a bit more detail.  In all the species of caecilians that have been investigated it appears that their eyes are either covered by skin or bone. Interestingly all of the examined species have a functional photoreceptor. What does this mean in layman's terms? It means that they don't have eyes that help them see images but they may still use their eyes to detect light.  Ancient fossils of caecilians showed that they had larger eyes that might have been used to see images but over the millennia their eyes have become smaller and weaker. We know why this has happened. Caecilians live in dark places, underground and underwater. This behavior probably evolved slowly as they adapted to the pressures of survival in a changing world. As they relied less and less on light their eyes became smaller. Scientists, always on the hunt for more information, asked the question “What exactly happened to the eyes of caecilians as they evolved?” Did they retain all the components of a functional eye or did they loose certain structures that were no longer needed? In 1985 a biologist in the Department of Zoology at the University of California Berkley found some answers. At the time Marvalee Wake investigated all the caecilians that were known and studied the structure of their eyes. Seven differ trends were seen.  1. The eyes were covered by thicker skin as well as bone. 2. Nonessential ocular muscles became smaller or nonexistent 3. The retina progressed from a typical layered pattern to fewer cells to a net like formation instead of layering 4. The optical nerve starts off present then becomes smaller and weaker then to only a small amount of cells 5. The lens of the eye is originally round or spherical then progresses to crystalline to cellular to absent. 6. The vitreous liquid in the eye is lost 7. The cornea becomes attached to the covering skin and the lens becomes attached to the cornea and retina. All of these trends show how the eyes of caecilians became obsolete, but some structures still remained.  Another project from 2014 studied the rods and cones in the the eyes of caecilians. Rods are the structures that are active in lower light levels while cones are active at higher light levels and can detect color. They found that the caecilians optical cells only contained rods. This is further evidence supporting the thought that their eyes my still be used to detect light but are no longer used to see actual images.  So, now we know that caecilians no longer rely on their vision to help shape their knowledge of the world around them. Some of you may be asking if they have compensated for this lack of information in some other way? I like the way you think, listeners, because this is exactly what happened! Let's look at the sense of smell next. Most caecilians have nostrils through which they breath but there is no evidence that indicates their sense of smell is located within the nares. Many species have another anatomical structure that helps them smell, tentacles.  Caecilian tentacles are located on their face in-between the eye and nostrils. They have one on each side. I know when I think of a tentacle I think of the arms of an octopus, tentacles that are long, thin, and capable of grasping objects. Caecilian tentacles are not like this and thank goodness! Could you imagine having two long squiggly arms that pick up random items sticking out of your face?  Whoa! Talk about problems! Caecilian tentacles are more like short nubs.  The tentacles of caecilians are chemoreceptors. Essentially they help them smell. They use them to gather information about their environment such as what kind of soil they are in and where they can find food. Caecilians are carnivores so they are always on the look out for terrestrial insects and other invertebrates to eat. Terrestrial and aquatic caecilians use their tentacles in the same way. The tentacles are attached to the tear ducts and the Jacobson's organ also known as the vomeronasal organ. Being attached to the Jacobson's organ is a good indication that these tentacles are used for smelling. Almost all  amphibians, reptiles, and mammals on earth have a Jacobson's organ that helps  them detect smells.  These facial organs have a secondary purpose as well. Caecilians also use these tentacles as tactile receptors which means they use them to feel their environment as well as smell it. This is extremely helpful when you have poor or no vision. Caecilians are the only amphibians that have tentacles. They most likely evolved to help compensate for their failing vision. The last sense we're going to talk about is hearing. Caecilians do not have external ear holes or pinnae. When you live underground or underwater you have no real need to hear sound waves that travel through the air. But if you could feel vibrations, this would be useful. In 2014, researchers used a CT scanner to create a 3D image of a caecilians head and found something interesting. Caecilians have a much larger ventral organ in the ear than other types of amphibians. This organ is used to sense vibrations! To deal with their underground lifestyle, caecilians have evolved a large vibration sensing organ in their inner ear. According to the study, this is different from other underground animals such as molerats. The researchers hypothesize that because the caecilians are more sedentary than other underground dwellers and they leave their head on the ground more, since they have no legs, this may be the reason their ventral organ is larger. That's it for caecilian senses. I know you had fun listening to this episode because it's my second favorite thing about caecilians.   If you're enjoying this podcast please recommend me to friends and family and take a moment to give me a rating on whatever platform your listening. It will help me reach more listeners and give the animals I talk about an even better chance at change.    Join me next week for another thing I like about caecilians!   (Piano Music plays)  This has been an episode of Ten Things I like About with Kiersten and Company. Original music written and performed by Katherine Camp, piano extraordinaire.

It's tempting to think that secularized academics are too intellectual to ever come to the kind of “childlike faith” that Jesus described, or that, if they ever were to trust Christ, they'd have to abandon their academic pursuits. However, like once-liberal theologian Thomas Oden or once-radical feminist English professor Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, the case of Rodney Stark suggests otherwise. Dr. Stark's research and reading, specifically about the impact of Christianity in history, was part of what moved him to become a committed believer.  Stark was born in North Dakota in 1934. Oddly enough, he played high school football with Alvin Plantinga, the great Christian philosopher. After a stint in the army, he studied journalism in college, graduating in 1959. Once, during his early career as a reporter, he covered a meeting of the Oakland Spacecraft Club where the speaker claimed to have visited Mars, Venus, and the moon in a flying saucer. After Stark reported the story straight, with no sarcasm or snide comments, he was assigned all of the odd stories that came along.  Stark's ability to treat people's beliefs seriously and recognize that, at least for them, these beliefs are plausible, was a key element in his decision to shift from journalism to sociology. In 1972, after completing his graduate work at the University of California-Berkley, he was hired as a professor of sociology and comparative religion at the University of Washington.  Stark focused his research on why people were religious. How did they understand their faith? What did they get out of it? How did they live it out? From this focus, Stark developed a theory of conversion that emphasized social relationships, felt needs, and personal choice. In essence, Stark concluded that conversion was a rational choice, based on the expectation that one would receive more from the religion than it would cost to join it.   He was among the first sociologists to recognize that competition between religious groups increased the overall religiosity of a community. In other words, a religious group with a monopoly tends to get lazy and neglect meeting needs and conducting outreach. Stark was also critical of the standard academic view that secularization was an inevitable result of modernization. Instead, he argued this idea was wildly wrong because sociologists misunderstood religion and failed to account for religious revivals and innovation.  His book The Rise of Christianity was published in 1996. In it, Stark argued that the incredible growth and spread of Christianity were because it offered more to people than any of its competitors. In particular, Stark argued that the rapid growth of the Church was, in large part, due to how Christians treated women. This, especially compared to the pagan treatment of women, led to more conversions, which led to the faith being spread through social networks. Also, prohibitions of abortion and infanticide led to an organic growth of the Church, and how Christians responded to persecution and plague led to a growth in credibility. The Rise of Christianity was so groundbreaking that it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  After this, Stark focused his work on the history of Christianity. After writing two books on the historical impact of monotheism — first One True God in 2001 and then For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts, and the End of Slavery in 2003, Stark wrote what may be his greatest book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, in 2005.   In 2004, the year before The Victory of Reason was published, Stark commented, “I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over.” The Victory of Reason first brought Dr. Stark to the attention of Chuck Colson, who was astounded that a self-professed agnostic sociologist was clear-eyed and honest enough to recognize and highlight the effects of Christianity on the world. Chuck featured The Victory of Reason on Breakpoint and included it in the Centurions Program (now known as the Colson Fellows).  After the commentary aired, Rodney Stark contacted Chuck Colson, and thanked him for the kind words. He also told Colson that he had come to faith in Christ, which he publicly announced in 2007.  In 2004, Stark became the distinguished professor of the social sciences at Baylor University, as well as the co-director of the Institute for Studies of Religion and founding editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. Although Baylor is a Baptist school, Stark preferred to call himself an “independent Christian” and continued to produce important and sometimes controversial books on Christianity, history, and culture.  Throughout his career, Stark was an irascible critic of political and religious biases in the academic world, especially in his own field of sociology. His intellectual brilliance is attested by his groundbreaking work, and his intellectual honesty and integrity by his faith, a faith he studied for many years. 

Nia Jones holds a Master's degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California Berkley, but by faith, she is a child of God. As part of her Master's program, Nia studied sustainability as well as environmental justice issues. During this podcast episode, Nia discusses her goals of creating environmental leadership centers for incarcerated youth. A former dancer with the Boston Celtics, Nia weaves her story of how the lessons she learned on the court have shaped her mindset as an Industrial Engineer concerned with creating long-lasting sustainable solutions for the planet. In addition to her involvement in the National Society of Black Engineers, her work exemplifies the mission of that organization. Listen to Nia talk about her journey as a survivor of Crohn's disease to becoming an energy queen. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/see-brilliance/support

In this episode, I interview Helen, a native Californian who currently lives in the Bay Area and works with equity and human rights issues, working to provide housing for people in her community to find stability and to thrive. Helen majored in Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkley and then went on to get a Master's in Education in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus in trauma and resilience studies. In this episode, Helen tells us about a number of slang words that are commonly spoken and heard in the Bay Area. She helps us think about the importance of becoming more aware and conscious of inclusive language that takes into account people of diverse genders, races, and ability levels and that isn't derogatory and that doesn't reinforce structures of oppression. In this interview, we get insight into how powerful and creative language is and how it is constantly transforming and changing based on the dynamic surroundings. Here is the link to the transcript Find Helen on LinkedIn

When I met a faithful Catholic woman who ALSO studied Ethnic Studies at University of California Berkley, I knew I had to get her on the podcast. My friend, Kimberly Hebert, joins me to day to talk about her experience at UC Berkeley, her conversion to Catholicism, and her political journey. She has long been sympathetic to the causes of social justice, but her time at UC Berkeley was much different than I anticipated. Check out today's episode to learn more about her amazing story!

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Andrei Zorin is a Professor and Chair of Russian, Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford, and the Professor and the Academic Director of the program "Public History: Historical Knowledge in Modern Societies” at the Moscow School of Economics and Social Sciences (Shaninka). He received his degree of Ph. D. in 1983 and Habilitation in 2001 from Moscow State University. Since the early 1990s, he has taught as visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of California- Berkley, University of Helsinki (Finland), L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) a.o. Andrei has given keynote talks papers at many international conferences in Russia, UK, USA, France, Italy, Austria, etc. He is the author and co-author of several books on Russian literature and culture. His recent book Leo Tolstoy (Critical Lives) has been shortlisted for Pushkin Prize, given in Britain for the best book about Russia in 2020. His research interests: Russian Literature and Cultural History of XVIII early XIX centuries in European Context. Russian Literature and Ideology. Cultural History of Emotions. Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature. ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Andrei Zorin is a Professor and Chair of Russian, Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford, and the Professor and the Academic Director of the program "Public History: Historical Knowledge in Modern Societies” at the Moscow School of Economics and Social Sciences (Shaninka). He received his degree of Ph. D. in 1983 and Habilitation in 2001 from Moscow State University. Since the early 1990s, he has taught as visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of California- Berkley, University of Helsinki (Finland), L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) a.o. Andrei has given keynote talks papers at many international conferences in Russia, UK, USA, France, Italy, Austria, etc. He is the author and co-author of several books on Russian literature and culture. His recent book Leo Tolstoy (Critical Lives) has been shortlisted for Pushkin Prize, given in Britain for the best book about Russia in 2020. His research interests: Russian Literature and Cultural History of XVIII early XIX centuries in European Context. Russian Literature and Ideology. Cultural History of Emotions. Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature.================================PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.uhnwidata.com/podcastApple podcast: https://apple.co/3kqOA7QSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2UOtE1AGoogle podcast: https://bit.ly/3jmA7ulSUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrichTwitter: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denofrich/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich

William B. Grant, Ph.D. has authored over 280 peer-reviewed articles on vitamin D and sunlight exposure since 1996. His primary interests are identifying and quantifying the risk-modifying factors for chronic and infectious diseases, with a particular interest in ultraviolet irradiance and vitamin D as well as diet. He is also extremely passionate about getting the message out that risk of disease can be modified by diet, supplementation, and lifestyle choices. William got his BA and Ph.D. in physics from University of California Berkley. He later found himself working for the NASA Langly Research Centre where he operated an airborne laser remote sensing system for measuring ozone and aerosols on many international field expeditions. It after this where he became interested in the effects of UV light on human health. He has since been doing independent research primarily on the links between vitamin D and disease.Keep up to date with William: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/ricciflownutrition

Everyone agrees artificial intelligence is powerful technology. That's why agencies across the government are looking at it to speed things up and improve mission delivery. But AI can be misused. Just look at the super-surveillance society that is communist China. For how federal agencies can keep AI honest, the Federal Drive turned to someone who's done extensive AI research. She's the program lede for the artificial intelligence security initiative at the University of California Berkley, Jessica Newman.

University of California-Berkley quarterback Chase Garbers sat down with Jake Scott & Patrick Kinahan at Pac-12 Media Day.

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On this weeks episode, I chat with Dr. Martha Namundjebo-Tilahun, Co-Founder and Chairperson of the United Africa Group, a privately owned multi-billion-dollar business conglomerate in Namibia that has been in operation since 1992.We talked about the enduring impact her late father has had on her both in life and in business. She shared his 4 guiding principles which she continues to live by and also her own business lessons having built and sustained multiple successful businesses over the past 29 years.Martha obtained an MBA in Finance from the University of California Berkley, USA; an MBA from the University of California, Santa Clara, California, USA and Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Management from St. Paul’s College, Lawrenceville Virginia, USA. In November 2015, Martha was conferred with a Doctorate Degree Honoris Causa in Business Administration from the University of Namibia, as a tribute to her contribution to the economy of Namibia and thereafter she founded the Dr. Martha Namundjebo-Tilahun foundation aimed at nurturing the African Girl Child to be a key architect of society and a cradle of hope.   AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES WEBSITE:  www.africanbusinessstories.com AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/afribizstories/ AFRICAN BUSINESS STORIES FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/afribizstories

Elizabeth Swaney was born in 1984 in Oakland, California. She attended the University of California Berkley where her only athletic accomplishment consisted of serving as the coxswain of the men’s rowing team.  Elizabeth, however, desperately wanted to be an olympian. The only thing standing in her way was a complete lack of athletic ability.  Her lack of athletic ability didn’t stop her, and in 2018, she managed to achieve her goal of competing in the Olympics.  https://rerouted.co/ -------------------------------- Associate Producer Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere   Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EEDailyPodcast/ Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Learn more about Elizabeth Swaney and the power of just showing up on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.    

With Daylight Saving Time coming up this weekend, Dean and Anna explore a bit of its history and the unending question: do we even need it anymore? What is time anyway? And why does it matter to an astronomer? They are also joined by PhD Student in Astrophysics at the University of California - Berkley, Sarafina Nance to discuss how close we can get to predicting the end of Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in our sky. Sarafina also shares some of her thoughts on science and astronomy advocacy and her current quest to make it into space! Learn more about Sarafina Nance and her work at her website: starafina.com Follow her on Twitter: @starstrickensf

Why should you use VPN? Does VPN make your private browsing Secure? FAQs and Myths Unfolded In this episode we take leap into understanding Virtual Private Networks (VPN) with cybersecurity researcher Sina Davanian who is a postdoctoral researcher at University of California Berkley. It is an interesting episode as we talk about some basic issues with present day VPNs vs their real intended use cases. Is VPN at all trustable for your common, confidential and binging use cases (yea, privacy too). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cybersecurityweekly/support

Guest: Lindsay Gottlieb, Cleveland Cavaliers Assistant CoachIn this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Lindsay Gottlieb joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss pick and roll defense at all levels.Lindsay Gottlieb recently began her NBA coaching career with the Cavaliers. She joined the staff with coaching great John Beilein last fall. This hiring made Lindsay the first NCAA women's basketball coach to move onto the NBA. Gottlieb was coveted by the NBA because of her attention to detail and expertise of pick roll coverages.Before the NBA, Gottlieb was the head coach at the University of California Berkley from 2011-2018. At Cal coach Gottlieb lead her teams to an average of 22 wins a season and 7 NCAA Tournament appearances. Along with that, the golden bears reached an NCAA Final Four and took home the Pac-12 title in 2012. Gottlieb also managed to balance team success and player development. In her short tenure, she had 5 of her players drafted by the WNBA.At just 30 years old Gottlieb got her first head coaching job at UC Santa Barbara in 2008. In her first season, the team went 15-1 in the conference and made it to the NCAA Tournament. Throughout her short three year stint, she won two conference championships at UCSB.Gottlieb has an incredible track record in her young coaching career. This includes 9 postseason appearances and 3 conference titles. Lindsay will also continue to make waves in the NBA this year with a young and exciting team. Breakdown1:00 - How to Defend Ball Screen3:30 - Screen Coverage6:30 - Beliefs on Ball Screen Defense10:30 - Tag13:00 - Making an Impact Offensively15:30 - Aggressive Coverage18:00 - Philosophy of Self Scouting22:00 - Exposing Analytics in the NBA25:00 - Pick and Roll Defense28:00 - Triple Switch29:30 - Icing the Pick and Roll32:00 - Going Under the Screen34:00 - Focus on Being More Aggressive36:00 - Recovery Angle and Trapping39:30 - Run and Drawn the Ball Screen42:00 - Teaching Ball Screen45:00 - Connect with the Ball48:00 - Off-Ball Defenders53:00 - Takeaways from the NBA55:00 - ConclusionLindsay Gottlieb’s Bio:Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_GottliebTwitter: https://twitter.com/CoachLindsayGBasketball ImmersionWebsite: http://basketballimmersion.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersionFacebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersionBetOnline Website:Website: www.betonline.agBest in the West Video SeriesBest in the West Website: http://bestinthewestclinic.com/

Have you ever had a client arrive for their appointment and immediately start sharing about their lives, their experiences, and their concerns? In this special episode, we are joined by Jesse Antin, Development Director at the Greater Good Science Center. Jesse shares with us how to use interpersonal strategies to understand this experience and how to strengthen your emotional intelligence so you can support every client. We discuss key principles of empathy, compassion, and active listening and how a daily dose of gratitude helps you physically, mentally and emotionally. Addressing the inherent need for human touch is in Dermalogica’s DNA and has served as the inspiration for our online Meaningful Connections Certification course.  Resources for this course come from the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkley. The online course provides helpful tools and expert techniques to navigate emotional moments with our 8 guiding principles for counseling clients –so you can give more empathy, gratitude, and compassion to others and to yourself.

John Connelly's new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav's other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As America enters the final stretch of the 2020 election, many of the debates and issues that continue to dominate the campaign at the national and local levels stem from a resurgent global right-wing populism that led to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Four years later, this aggressive form of right-wing populism, infused with xenophobic nationalism, remains a powerful influence in the United States and around the world. Perhaps no one knows these issues better than Lawrence Rosenthal, the founder of the University of California Berkley's Center for Right-Wing Studies. In his new book Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism, Rosenthal paints a vivid sociological, political and psychological picture of the transnational quality of this movement, which is now in power in at least a dozen countries. In America and abroad, the current mobilization of right-wing populism has given life to long marginalized threats like white supremacy and anti-immigration fervor. In 2016, renowned UC Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was among the first major sociologists to help explain Trump's election. Her award-winning book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, helped readers understand why so many American voters were attracted to Trump's populist message and its negative undertones. Please join us for a special conversation between two UC Berkeley stars—Rosenthal and Hochschild—as they discuss the how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible—and what it portends for the future just two months out from the 2020 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pierce’s Disease is caused by bacteria spread by xylem sucking insects. The bacteria move quickly throughout the vine causing disease which blocks the flow of liquid through the plant. Symptoms of leaf scorching – leaves that are curled and dried up on the edges - show up mid-summer. This pathogen is successful because plant does not recognize that it is there and does not mount a good defense. Steven Lindow, Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California Berkley is a plant pathologist and microbial ecologist. He and his team are researching other bacteria that can grow in the grapevine that mysteriously sensitize them to the Pierce’s Disease pathogen. Once inoculated with the new bacteria the plant induces its innate immune system to combat Pierces Disease. This process works like a vaccine although the bacteria itself does not cause a direct action. Naturally found in onions, the bacteria can be applied in a spray with a surfactant. Current research indicates that this process will need to be repeated annually. As the EPA considers beneficial bacteria a pesticide, Lindow is pursuing the registration process so this technique can be used commercially. References: Biological Control of Pierce’s Disease of Grape by an Endophytic Bacterium Caroline Roper, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology & Plant Pathologist, University of California Riverside Cell-cell signaling controls Xylella fastidiosa interactions with both insects and plants Steven Lindow, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California Berkley SIP Certified Use of a Green Fluorescent Strain for Analysis of Xylella fastidiosa Colonization of Vitis vinifera Get More Subscribe on Google Play, iHeartRADIO, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.

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Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonory Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonory Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg published the novel that would give a name to this era, “The Thaw,” which probed the limits of cultural expression, now expanded by Khrushchev’s political pivot. One of the critical hallmarks of The Thaw is an almost immediate deluge of foreign culture into the Soviet Union, which for most of the population was entirely new: in pre-revolutionary Russia, culture was the prerogative of wealthy aristocrats and intellectuals, and for the much of the first three decades of the nascent Soviet state, access to foreign culture was strictly forbidden.  Suddenly, the vast country was flooded with international books, films, paintings, and music.  The impact was seismic, and the reverberations are still felt today. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture(Harvard University Press, 2018), by Eleonor Gilburd, is a deep dive into this phenomenon, which spans period from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones.  But Gilburd doesn’t limit herself to the impact of culture on the Soviet population, rather she examines the ways in which Soviet cultural interpreters made foreign cultural artifacts “about us.” In Gilburd’s study, we see how translators dug deep into Russian street language to bring Holden Caufield to the page, how film distributors brought Fellini’s neorealism to the steppes of Kazakhstan, and how Ilya Ehrenburg gently reintroduced a nation to the beauty of French Impressionism.  This is as much a story of translators, commentators, and curators as it is of their audience. “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” was short-listed for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize. Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of Soviet History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the author of “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s.”  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley in 2010. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor’s, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VBP Student Spotlight: Beatrice Bui, a student from University of California Berkley, shares how her family came to America and how the stories of the Vietnamese diaspora has influenced her as a designer. She won the VBP design People’s choice award for her original design that portrays the struggles of the Vietnamese boat people refugees and the inner-generations that connect to form the community and the resiliency.  

Michael Pollan is a writer whose books have topped the New York Times bestseller list time and time again. He teaches writing at Harvard and The University of California Berkley. In 2010, Time magazine name Michael Pollan one of the most influential people in the world. His books and essays have historically focused on our interaction with nature and this new book takes that theme to a whole other level. Its title gives you a great idea of what it's about: How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. No matter how many interviews you've heard of Michael Pollan talking about his new book, our interview will offer you a fresh perspective, things he has not previously discussed and things that you may not have previously considered. The very last concept discussed in Eric's conversation with Michael Pollan will for sure leave you thinking anew. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program. Our sponsor this week is Casper Mattress visit www.casper.com/oneyoufeed and use the promo code theoneyoufeed for $50 off your purchase In This Interview, Michael Pollan and I Discuss...His book, How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and TranscendenceHow fear is a big motivator in people's action and inactionThat your obstacles are all between your earsHow consciousness is a big mysteryWhat the newest science tells us about psychedelicsThe way psychedelics affect us by allowing us to look at normal, everyday consciousness in new waysThe default mode network going quiet during a psychedelic tripThe ego, idea of self in the brain and our lifePsychedelics impact on the sense of selfThe experience of the dissolution of the egoThe mind-expanding power of mystical experienceThe theory of the entropic brainHow the brain works to reduce uncertainty and surpriseThe narrowing of consciousness by rigid thinkingThe stories our brains tell usInsufficient entropy in the brain perhaps leading to mental illnessesPsychedelics disordering the brainThe similarities between a tripping brain on psychedelics and a meditative brainAn ego-free state of consciousness through the use of psychedelicsThe mistake of seeing spirituality as the opposite of materialismThe opposite of spiritual being egotisticalThe ego keeps us from having a deep connection with everything around usHow psychedelics are "wasted on the young"That those in the 2nd half of their lives may benefit most from the use of psychedelicsThe importance of breaking the rigidity that growing older bringsHow psychedelics can help us make peace with our deathPsilocybin benefiting those facing imminent death with great fearHow psychedelics and a psychodynamic approach are not opposites"Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy"Positive trauma in the brainAdministering an experience rather than a drugThe importance of set and setting when taking a psychedelicHow a spiritual experience alone doesn't make a spiritual lifeThat ego is nothing but a contraction Please Support The Show with a Donation

Two words: Flying Lizards. How'd it happen? Evolution. Evolutionary history is complicated. It can sometimes be helpful to look at funky animals to see what their unusual traits tell us about their history. For example, Dr. Jim McGuire from the University of California Berkley, studies the evolutionary correlates of size, color, and flight in lizards.

Think of all the numbers we confront every day … and how many of them we accept without even thinking. That is just one of many factors that caused an expert to consider the proper relationships between science, numeracy and representations. However, most of us never think about those proper relationships, much less any regular relationships. The fact is that science and math both have a significant impact on our lives, yet few of us have the experience or knowledge to properly appreciate their consequences. Guest: Dr. Michael Ranney, head of the Reasoning Research Group at the University of California-Berkley. Perspective is a weekly public affairs program hosted by Richard Baker, communications professor at Kansas State University. Perspective has been continuously produced for radio stations across the nation by K-State for well over six decades. The program has included interviews with dignitaries, authors and thought leaders from around the world. Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu. K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan.

Our special guest is Erin MacKenzie. Erin is a 2 time Olympic Gold Medallist at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics where she competed in rowing in the Women's 8. She graduated from the University of California Berkley and was a member of the 2005 and 2006 NCAA Division 1 rowing championships. She is co founder of power speed endurance and is a highly sought after coach. You will learn plenty from Erin MacKenzie in episode 166 of The Vision Board Podcast. What you will learn in this episode: 6:30 - we welcome Erin MacKenzie 6:55 - are we overtraining? 7:45 - the art of dealing with pain 9:30 - what the preparation is like as an Olympic rower 13:02 - what the communication is like on an Olympic rowing team 16:31 - CrossFit and different styles of training 17:42 - "sleep is my superpower" 22:25 - "do what you enjoy" 27:15 - Dr Sean Stevenson, sleep, and circadian rhythm 32:45 - how much does an Olympic rower make? 35:02 - how her body responded to retirement 41:22 - the importance of trusting ones coaches 44:05 - the toughest part of her career that she learned from 47:09 - what is was like to be on Oprah 50:13 - what's it feel like to be in ketosis? 54:32 - mental health 57:49 - the pain and acceptance of training hard 58:05 - what posters were on her childhood wall? 59:30 - what would her 3 closest friends say about her? 103:05 - advice for bad days? 104:33 - what 5 people would she invite to dinner? Get your FREE copy of CONVERSATIONS WITH CHAMPIONS, an inspirational quote book of all the guests from the podcast Simply visit http://www.thevisionboardpodcast.com/ebook Get in touch with Jonny and Tristan at info@thevisionboardpodcast.com

Dr. Maureen Raymo is a leading climate researcher teaching at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. Maureen focuses on sea level rise, and paleo-oceanography to better understand past climate conditions and how the warming of the planet will affect sea level. The recipient of numerous accolades for her scholarly work, most notably she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and named one of Discover magazine’s 50 most important women in science. Now teaching for Columbia, she has taught at U of California - Berkley, MIT, and Boston University.

We have a special two part episode about batteries, the fundamental enabling technology for Tesla. Since it’s such a big topic area, we brought in a special guest, Bernard Kim a PhD from University of California Berkley specializing in advanced battery technology to discuss everything batteries –their history, how they work, why AA’s are different than what’s used by Tesla, what causes batteries to degrade and more.

Dedication: Police Officer Reginald Jacob "Jake" Gutierrez, Tacoma Police Dept, WashingtonEnd of Watch: Wed., November 30, 2016Dan Adamini made national headlines for a Facebook and Twitter post that seemed to suggest 'another Kent State' as a solution for campus protests.  Death threats and backlash from social media posts has forced Dan to resign from his role as secretary of the Marquette County Republic Party.  He wrote his posts after the protest at the University of California-Berkley  over an event featuring a conservative speaker.  Since then, he has taken down the posts, and has suspended his weekly radio show “In the Right Mind,".Ryan "Ryno" DeCicco of the Ryno Report, waggishly speculates on today's news.  After spending many years as a civil servant, law enforcement officer, and building maintenance professional, He ventured out on his own to start his own business. He quickly realized that corrupt politicians, insurance companies, and big banking institutions turned his dream of being a business owner into a nightmare of senseless bureaucracy. Unfazed and even more determined than ever, Ryan went on to not only start his business, but also become an active member of the U.S. Green Builders Council and the International Facility Management Association.  crntalk.com/rynoreportSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Reginald Jacob "Jake" Gutierrez, Tacoma Police Dept, WashingtonEnd of Watch: Wed., November 30, 2016Dan Adamini made national headlines for a Facebook and Twitter post that seemed to suggest 'another Kent State' as a solution for campus protests. Death threats and backlash from social media posts has forced Dan to resign from his role as secretary of the Marquette County Republic Party. He wrote his posts after the protest at the University of California-Berkley over an event featuring a conservative speaker. Since then, he has taken down the posts, and has suspended his weekly radio show “In the Right Mind,".Ryan "Ryno" DeCicco of the Ryno Report, waggishly speculates on today's news. After spending many years as a civil servant, law enforcement officer, and building maintenance professional, He ventured out on his own to start his own business. He quickly realized that corrupt politicians, insurance companies, and big banking institutions turned his dream of being a business owner into a nightmare of senseless bureaucracy. Unfazed and even more determined than ever, Ryan went on to not only start his business, but also become an active member of the U.S. Green Builders Council and the International Facility Management Association. crntalk.com/rynoreportSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Reginald Jacob "Jake" Gutierrez, Tacoma Police Dept, Washington End of Watch: Wed., November 30, 2016 Dan Adamini made national headlines for a Facebook and Twitter post that seemed to suggest 'another Kent State' as a solution for campus protests.  Death threats and backlash from social media posts has forced Dan to resign from his role as secretary of the Marquette County Republic Party.  He wrote his posts after the protest at the University of California-Berkley  over an event featuring a conservative speaker.  Since then, he has taken down the posts, and has suspended his weekly radio show “In the Right Mind,". Ryan "Ryno" DeCicco of the Ryno Report, waggishly speculates on today's news.  After spending many years as a civil servant, law enforcement officer, and building maintenance professional, He ventured out on his own to start his own business. He quickly realized that corrupt politicians, insurance companies, and big banking institutions turned his dream of being a business owner into a nightmare of senseless bureaucracy. Unfazed and even more determined than ever, Ryan went on to not only start his business, but also become an active member of the U.S. Green Builders Council and the International Facility Management Association.  crntalk.com/rynoreport Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Reginald Jacob "Jake" Gutierrez, Tacoma Police Dept, WashingtonEnd of Watch: Wed., November 30, 2016Dan Adamini made national headlines for a Facebook and Twitter post that seemed to suggest 'another Kent State' as a solution for campus protests. Death threats and backlash from social media posts has forced Dan to resign from his role as secretary of the Marquette County Republic Party. He wrote his posts after the protest at the University of California-Berkley over an event featuring a conservative speaker. Since then, he has taken down the posts, and has suspended his weekly radio show “In the Right Mind,".Ryan "Ryno" DeCicco of the Ryno Report, waggishly speculates on today's news. After spending many years as a civil servant, law enforcement officer, and building maintenance professional, He ventured out on his own to start his own business. He quickly realized that corrupt politicians, insurance companies, and big banking institutions turned his dream of being a business owner into a nightmare of senseless bureaucracy. Unfazed and even more determined than ever, Ryan went on to not only start his business, but also become an active member of the U.S. Green Builders Council and the International Facility Management Association. crntalk.com/rynoreportSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Best FOR the World Introducing Bryan Welch and B The Change Media  Those of you who are repeat listeners of the Boiling Point know about the swelling B Corp movement and how it uses business as a catalyst for doing good in the world. This week's guest, Bryan Welch, has a plan to spread the word of this movement even further with his new company B The Change Media.  Bryan has made a career in magazine publishing since the mid-70s. During his career he transformed a declining publisher of two rural-lifestyle magazines to a dynamic, growing multi-media company with 9 magazine titles and numerous websites and ancillary products with millions of readers. Bryan first got the idea for telling stories about businesses doing good in the world about ten years ago, but at the time it was hard to distinguish companies with genuine commitments versus those making marketing plays. However, the introduction of the B Lab assessment tool gave him objective evidence in order to proceed with his plan. While other magazines on business assess companies on their ability to rapidly acquire wealth through lists like the “Fortune 500”, Bryan is currently working on his own designation, “Best for the World”. Learn all about B The Change Media and Best for the World in this week's edition of the Boiling Point.   In this episode   We learn about Bryan's motivation for starting a media company focusing on businesses doing good in the world. Bryan discusses the size of his audience and how the B Corp movement is growing. We hear how the Best of the World designation will be a collection of the top 10% of B Corp companies. Greg and Bryan speak to their excitement for the celebration that will take place at the University of California – Berkley. Bryan lets us in on a few contenders for the Best in the World designation. There is a discussion on where B Corps go from here. Bryan tells us that while currently there are around 2000 B Corps in the world, over 40000 businesses have taken the B Corp assessment and the growth of the movement is up 30% from last year. Bryan likens how businesses and products are becoming a part of our identity to the music of the 60s. Greg sees Bryan as a super dynamic human being and thinks it is a luxury to have him as a part of the B Corp movement. Dave appreciates Bryan's ability to use his intuition.   Links - B The Change Media Website - Best For The World Website - B Corporation Website - B The Change on Twitter - B The Change on Facebook - B The Change on Linked In - B The Change on Instagram - Bryan on Linked In - Bryan on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent research from the University of California-Berkley reports people who practice gratitude consistently show evidence of: Stronger immune systems and lower blood pressure; Higher levels of positive emotions; More joy, optimism, and happiness; Acting with more generosity and compassion; Feeling less lonely and isolated. This recording discusses 7 practical steps that will allow gratitude to take you to new altitudes!

Alfred Day, Care Manager at University of California-Berkley, talks with Andee abaout things you need to know beore sending your kids to college.

ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh is a Native American elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She taught for the Cross Cultural Communications program at University of California Berkley for 19 years.   In 1990, at the invitation of the Maori King Hukapa Mateau of Aotearoa/New Zealand she was asked to come to share her knowledge and sacred stories. It was there she received the name “Te Wahini O Nga Ho O E Wa- Woman of The Four Directions Who Call The People to Action”. The Chumash elder, Sky Eagle, called her one of the great teachers of these times.

ChoQosh Auh'Ho'Oh is a Native American elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She taught for the Cross Cultural Communications program at University of California Berkley for 19 years. In 1990, at the invitation of the Maori King Hukapa Mateau of Aotearoa/New Zealand she was asked to come to share her knowledge and sacred stories. It was there she received the name "Te Wahini O Nga Ho O E Wa- Woman of The Four Directions Who Call The People to Action". The Chumash elder, Sky Eagle, called her one of the great teachers of these times.

NWP Welcomes Graciela Tiscareno-Sato Captain Sato served in the active duty US Air Force for over 9 years, as aircrew memeber and instructor navigator onboard KC-135 refueling tankers.  She's a graduate of the University of California Berkley where she attended as an Air Force ROTC scholarship cadet. First-Ever Bilingual Children’s Picture Book about why Mommies Wear Military Uniforms Now Available to Celebrate the 4th of July Good Night Captain Mama will Benefit a Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program San Francisco, CA (July 3, 2013) Publisher Gracefully Global Group LLC announces the general availability of Good Night Captain Mama, a unique early picture book for children ages three to eight authored by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato. Written in both English and Spanish (subtitled Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá), this book was conceived by a Latina military veteran who served as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by a conversation between the author and her four year-old son when he saw her in her flight suit, the picture book is beautifully illustrated by Ms. Linda Lens whose father Alberto served in the United States Air Force. The book went to print with nearly two dozen endorsements from the educational, library, military and Latino communities. www.captainmama.com www.northwestprime.com

NWP Welcomes Graciela Tiscareno-Sato Captain Sato served in the active duty US Air Force for over 9 years, as aircrew memeber and instructor navigator onboard KC-135 refueling tankers.  She's a graduate of the University of California Berkley where she attended as an Air Force ROTC scholarship cadet. First-Ever Bilingual Children’s Picture Book about why Mommies Wear Military Uniforms Now Available to Celebrate the 4th of July Good Night Captain Mama will Benefit a Veteran Entrepreneurship Training ProgramPublisher Gracefully Global Group LLC announces the general availability of Good Night Captain Mama, a unique early picture book for children ages three to eight authored by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato. Written in both English and Spanish (subtitled Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá), this book was conceived by a Latina military veteran who served as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by a conversation between the author and her four year-old son when he saw her in her flight suit, the picture book is beautifully illustrated by Ms. Linda Lens whose father Alberto served in the United States Air Force. The book went to print with nearly two dozen endorsements from the educational, library, military and Latino communities. www.captainmama.com www.northwestprime.com

NWP Welcomes Graciela Tiscareno-Sato Captain Sato served in the active duty US Air Force for over 9 years, as aircrew memeber and instructor navigator onboard KC-135 refueling tankers.  She's a graduate of the University of California Berkley where she attended as an Air Force ROTC scholarship cadet. First-Ever Bilingual Children’s Picture Book about why Mommies Wear Military Uniforms Now Available to Celebrate the 4th of July Good Night Captain Mama will Benefit a Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program San Francisco, CA (July 3, 2013) Publisher Gracefully Global Group LLC announces the general availability of Good Night Captain Mama, a unique early picture book for children ages three to eight authored by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato. Written in both English and Spanish (subtitled Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá), this book was conceived by a Latina military veteran who served as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by a conversation between the author and her four year-old son when he saw her in her flight suit, the picture book is beautifully illustrated by Ms. Linda Lens whose father Alberto served in the United States Air Force. The book went to print with nearly two dozen endorsements from the educational, library, military and Latino communities. www.captainmama.com www.northwestprime.com

NWP Welcomes Graciela Tiscareno-Sato Captain Sato served in the active duty US Air Force for over 9 years, as aircrew memeber and instructor navigator onboard KC-135 refueling tankers.  She's a graduate of the University of California Berkley where she attended as an Air Force ROTC scholarship cadet.  First-Ever Bilingual Children’s Picture Book about why Mommies Wear Military Uniforms Now Available to Celebrate the 4th of July Good Night Captain Mama will Benefit a Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program San Francisco, CA (July 3, 2013) Publisher Gracefully Global Group LLC announces the general availability of Good Night Captain Mama, a unique early picture book for children ages three to eight authored by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato. Written in both English and Spanish (subtitled Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá), this book was conceived by a Latina military veteran who served as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by a conversation between the author and her four year-old son when he saw her in her flight suit, the picture book is beautifully illustrated by Ms. Linda Lens whose father Alberto served in the United States Air Force. The book went to print with nearly two dozen endorsements from the educational, library, military and Latino communities.  www.captainmama.com www.northwestprime.com

Hello Everyone, Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. Here is our conversation with Glenn Deguzman, who currently holds the position of Assistant Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards at University of California Berkley. Glenn and I spent a good amount of time talking about his various mentoring experiences as a mentor and […]

We live in an age of skepticism about all forms of consumption. The diffusion of our skepticism is accelerated by the Internet and makes the sincerity even more pressing. So it's no surprise that the world of business — specifically in the realms of advertising, branding, and marketing — has to once again ennoble the concept of sincerity, which is to say, they have to simply be sincere and do work that is bounded by and radiates honesty. Marketing too often over promises in the hope of attracting prospects but the product or service under delivers in the execution. Warren Buffet once said – “Trust is like the air we breathe. When it's present, nobody really notices. But when it's absent everybody notices.” To explore this topic further I interviewed Romi Mahajan who recently wrote a piece in Internet Evolution on this topic. Listen to our podcast and advice on how to be more sincere in your marketing efforts … Sincere Marketing – a podcast with Romi Mahajan About Romi Romi Mahajan, Chief Marketing Officer. Romi Mahajan is Chief Marketing Officer of Ascentium Corporation, a leading interactive marketing and technology consultancy. Prior to joining Ascentium, Mahajan spent over seven years at Microsoft Corporation where he held the title of Director of Technical Audience & Platform Marketing. Earlier in his career, Mahajan started two boutique consulting companies specializing in technology and finance joint ventures between U.S. and Asian companies. A well-known speaker on the technology and media circuit, Mahajan currently serves on the Executive Customer Advisory Board of Ziff-Davis Enterprise and has been a panelist at the Windows Connections, United Business Media Leadership, Microsoft Tech-Ed, Web 2.0, Interop and other conferences. His articles on technology have been published in Siliconeer, Silicon India, TechNet Magazine and in a number of proceedings and journals worldwide. Mahajan graduated from the University of California Berkley at the age of 19 with a Bachelor's degree in South Asian Studies. He also received a Masters degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Texas in Austin. The post Sincere Marketing – a podcast with Romi Mahajan first appeared on Marketing Darwinism.

We live in an age of skepticism about all forms of consumption. The diffusion of our skepticism is accelerated by the Internet and makes the sincerity even more pressing. So it’s no surprise that the world of business — specifically in the realms of advertising, branding, and marketing — has to once again ennoble the concept of sincerity, which is to say, they have to simply be sincere and do work that is bounded by and radiates honesty. Marketing too often over promises in the hope of attracting prospects but the product or service under delivers in the execution. Warren Buffet once said – “Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices. But when it’s absent everybody notices.” To explore this topic further I interviewed Romi Mahajan who recently wrote a piece in Internet Evolution on this topic. Listen to our podcast and advice on how to be more sincere in your marketing efforts … Sincere Marketing – a podcast with Romi Mahajan About Romi Romi Mahajan, Chief Marketing Officer. Romi Mahajan is Chief Marketing Officer of Ascentium Corporation, a leading interactive marketing and technology consultancy. Prior to joining Ascentium, Mahajan spent over seven years at Microsoft Corporation where he held the title of Director of Technical Audience & Platform Marketing. Earlier in his career, Mahajan started two boutique consulting companies specializing in technology and finance joint ventures between U.S. and Asian companies. A well-known speaker on the technology and media circuit, Mahajan currently serves on the Executive Customer Advisory Board of Ziff-Davis Enterprise and has been a panelist at the Windows Connections, United Business Media Leadership, Microsoft Tech-Ed, Web 2.0, Interop and other conferences. His articles on technology have been published in Siliconeer, Silicon India, TechNet Magazine and in a number of proceedings and journals worldwide. Mahajan graduated from the University of California Berkley at the age of 19 with a Bachelor’s degree in South Asian Studies. He also received a Masters degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Texas in Austin.